The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

There are 2,OO0,00O mon engaged
In the building trades In the United
States.
Recently Buffalo canning ooni-
pany put up $4,000 cans Of corn, to-
matoes, and plums, the heaviest days
work In that line on record. Ovor five
hundred persons are employed In the
canning industry Of that city.
The theory that the banks Of New
foundland were formed by deposits
from floating icebcrgs is rejected by
Messrs. Rabot and Thoulet, two French
geographers, who have been studying
the subject Of the transportation Of
solid matter by icebcrgs.
Mr.. q. N. Potanin, who has recently
returned to st. Petersburg after thtee
years exploration in Mongolia, in the
course of which he crossed the Desert
of Cobb, was accompanied on the expedi-
ton by his wife. He brought home
fifteen thousand specimens Of insects.
--Late calculations from compared
observations show that Alcyone-that
one of the Pleiades around which the
sun and the whole solar system were
once thought to revolve--is about 954,-
900, 900, 900, 600 miles from us, distance
thatit would take light about 1853 years
to travel.
"A thorough exploration Of the
Orinoco river and its sources has been
made by French traveller named
Chaffanjon. He says the sources are
surrounded by a chain of mountains in
the form Of a fan, to which lie has given
the name Of the De Lesseps range, after
the great canal builder. ~
The manufacture of ottar of roses
is proposed as new California indus
try. An enterprising rose grower has
made the perfume by boiling roses and
water in tin can and preventing evap-
Grafton by cold water passing about the
jar. The ottar of roses was found on
the top of the water in the jar.-Boston
Budget.
One Of the largest belts in the
country, and the largest solid belt in
New England, has been manufactured
by the Union Belt Company, of Fall
River, Mass. The belt is four feet wide,
of three thicknesses, 1O3 feet long, and
weighs 1900 pounds. The manufact-
urers were obliged to pick over 1000
hides in order to get leather enough for
its construction.-Fdrm and Manu-
| fdcturer. 4u, E. tsSSE
The government of the province Of
Cordoba (Argenline Republic) has
established IL meteorological service, of
which Professor Oscar d ering will be
in charge. The new institute. will be
Independent of the meteorological Office
which was founded by Mr.. Gould. The
officers of telegraph and telephone
stations will be obliged to make obser-
vations in conformity with the instruc-
tions. The work will be begun next
year on forty stations. Public Opinion.
Some remarkable atmospheric bub-
bles seen at Remenham, England, were
described by Rev. A. Bonnoy at meet
ingof the Royal Meteorological Society.
Small air bubbles are not infrequently
observed in hot weather, but these
were seen rising from the snow in JAN
( uary and were of the same size and
shape as the toy balloons 80 commonly
sold on city streets. They ''rose to a
considerable height and then began to
move up and down within a limited
area, and at equal distances from each
other, some ascending and some de-
scending." The first fight lasted about
two minutes, when it was followed by
another of similar character. All the
bubbles tloated off in an easterly direc-
tiop.-M Y Ledger. .,r